You will be turning in your final projects next week. If you’re building a site, map, etc, please link the URL in the comments on this entry. If it’s a hi-rez prototype or something else that exists offline, bring in the finished work to class. We will transfer it to the projector computer.

In addition to your project, be prepared to talk for 5 minutes about your project. Walk us through it, talk about your approach, your strategy, etc. Prepare slides to accompany your presentation.

And, your final project should be accompanied by a 500 word report documenting the concept and the implementation, including trouble spots, and ideas on how to grow the idea outside of class deadlines. This will be turned in in class.

We’ll be joined via Skype by Stephen Hood, one of the founders of BlockChalk, a geolocational site that promises to be “the voice of your neighborhood.” BlockChalk takes an innovative, mapless approach to geolocation and will be a great addition to our talk tomorrow. Please familiarize yourself with their site: http://blockchalk.com/

Today we’ll be doing both mobile reporting and building a database-driven map. We’ll use a few different tools to pull this off. I have linked to all of them, though for this assignment, the heavy lifting of hooking bits and pieces up is done already. This is entirely something you could do yourself for other projects.

Then you’ll need a few different things to embed various content into the map:Drop.io: to collect all the mobile reports, and to embed audioPhotobucket: Free image hosting & editing–to resizing and hosting imagesYouTube: For hosting and embedding video.

In addition to our work on the map in class today, continue to add to the data points. You are responsible for reporting and listing 15 additional points by next Wednesday. We should have a *huge* map by then. Go for diversity of location, people, media, and opinions.